<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=533962" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Fable Or History</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Possessed of royal appetite, and feeling rather thin,<br>A monkey one day dressed himself in a tiger's skin<br>The tiger had been nasty; the monkey was atrocious,<br>Wearing on his back the right to be ferocious.<br>He set himself to gnashing teeth and let loose with this cry:<br>Conqueror of the jungle, the night's dark king am I!<br>As a bandit of the forest, in the bushes he lurked,<br>And snatched away and murdered and other horrors worked.<br>Laid waste the forest, slit the throats of those passing through,<br>And with the skin that covered him did all it used to do.<br>He lived within a cave, knee-deep in butchery,<br>And all who saw the skin believed the tiger was he.<br>He would cry out, would bring forth a truly terrible roar:<br>Behold within my cave the bones of victims before.<br>Before me all draw back and shudder, everyone doth flee,<br>All tremble - I am tiger! Look! and worship me!<br>The animals were all awe-struck and fled with great alarm,<br>A lion-tamer came and grabbed him with his arm,<br>And ripped off the tiger's skin like a flimsy piece of tissue,<br>Laid bare this 'conqueror' and said, 'You're just a monkey, you!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Victor+Hugo">Victor Hugo</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=533962" data-title="Fable Or History de Victor Hugo" data-description="Possessed of royal appetite, and feeling rather thin, A monkey one day dressed himself in a tiger's skin The tiger had been nasty; the monkey was atrocious, Wearing on his back the right to be ferocious. He set himself to gnashing teeth and let lo..."></div> </div> </div>

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